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Similar misdiagnoses are made when parents and doctors observe symptoms of the low phase of the bipolar cycle and conclude that a kid is suffering from simple depression. Treat such a child with antidepressants like Prozac, however, and the rejiggering of brain chemistry may trigger mania. Some researchers believe that nearly half of all children thought to be depressed may really be bipolar...
...rely on the imprecise relief that a single drug like lithium provides, contemporary chemists are investigating a battery of other medications. Depakote, an anticonvulsant developed to calm the storms of epilepsy, was found to have a similarly soothing effect on bipolar cycling, and it was approved in 1995 to treat that condition too. The success of one anticonvulsant prompted researchers to look at others, and in the past five years, several--including Lamictal, Tegretol, Trileptal and Topamax--have been...
...CHRISTOPHER'S METTLE: Kirkus is convulsed by "No Way to Treat a First Lady" by Christopher Buckley (Random House; October 15), giving it a glowing starred review. "Wicked humorist Buckley shoots fish in a barrel and makes them dance. The targets in this sendup of Washington - trial lawyers, first families, Court TV, MSNBC, Dan Rather, the FBI, the Secret Service, and the America appetite for the awful - are the last decade's scandals, which, rather than being gluey and unbearable in the reheating, are even more fun this time around....Unspeakably and endlessly funny. Unless you're a former president...
...leadership style was to treat the staff as a family,” she said. “When I started working here in 1973 there were only three of us—Jim, an executive director, and me—and we just clicked as a team...
DIED. C. JAMES CARRICO, 67, surgeon who as a young resident was first to treat President Kennedy in a Dallas emergency room on Nov. 22, 1963; of colon cancer; on Whidbey Island, Wash...